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Struggling with our Own Inadequacy
It is hard to measure up. In our lucid moments we admit this. Rarely is there a day when we could not echo these words by Anna Blaman: I realized
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On the Shores of Babylon
Henri Nouwen once remarked that he found it curious that many of the people he knew who were very angry and bitter were people he had met in church circles
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The Problem of Suffering and Evil
How can there be an all-loving and an all-powerful God if there is so much suffering and evil in our world? Perhaps that is the most difficult religious question of
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The Struggle to Love
After his wife died, Jacques Maritain published her journals. In the preface to that book, Raissa’s Journal, he talks about her death, brought on by a stroke, and then gives
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Honesty as Sobriety
You are as sick as your sickest secret! That’s a popular aphorism in recovery circles and it speaks a deep truth. If we have to hide something then we aren’t
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The Gospel Unfolding in History
We didn’t stop burning witches because we stopped reading scripture. We stopped burning witches because we kept on reading scripture. Gil Bailie, author of Violence Unveiled, wrote those words and
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The Heart of a Child
Unless you change and become like little children you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. How can we do that? How do we unlearn sophistication, undo the fact that
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On Cultivating or Not Cultivating Loneliness
Soren Kierkegaard remains a mentor to many people for a good reason. He touched the soul like a maestro picking up a violin and that master’s touch comes not so
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Prophecy – Challenge and Comfort
A few years ago, at a church conference that I was attending, the participants were divided into discussion groups and each group was asked the question: “What is the most
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The Pearl of Great Price and its Cost
A woman I know tells this story: She married a man she loved but, early on in the marriage, was too immature to responsibly carry her part of the relationship.
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